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Health official defends lack of testing: ‘We tell people to get swabbed but they don’t go’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA senior official at the Health Ministry defends the decreased rates of testing for the coronavirus, saying that the public isn’t turning up to be swabbed.
“The Health Ministry isn’t testing because the people of Israel don’t want to be tested. We have [the daily capacity for] 15,000 tests at the moment. We send people and they are not going to take the test,” Prof. Sigal Sadetsky, head of public health services in the Health Ministry, tells the Kan public broadcaster.
According to figures released Wednesday evening, the ministry carried out just 3,594 tests for the coronavirus that day.
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